Japanese tsuba with a wolf among reeds

An image of Sword fitting. Tsuba. Sentokudo. Squarish. A wolf seated on the ground among reeds, gold and silver zogan, turning round and baying at the moon, silver, among clouds. The wolf's teeth beautifully cut in gold. On the other side a kasa lying on the grass all gold zogan. Signature: Ichiiriuku Hisamitsu. Gold, silver, height, whole, 8.4 cm, width, whole, 7.5 cm. Japanese.

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Sword fitting. Tsuba. Sentokudo. Squarish. A wolf seated on the ground among reeds, gold and silver zogan, turning round and baying at the moon, silver, among clouds. The wolf's teeth beautifully cut in gold. On the other side a kasa lying on the grass all gold zogan. Signature: Ichiiriuku Hisamitsu. Gold, silver, height, whole, 8.4 cm, width, whole, 7.5 cm. Japanese.

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Accession Number: MAR.ARM.O.95-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 954 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 780.79kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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animal baying full moon gold howling Japanese lunar moon moonlight moonlit reeds sentokudo Silver sword sword fitting tsuba weapon wolf wolves

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